US researchers have spent years studying the effects of air pollution on people in China, where smog is rife ... The researchers used information on urban levels of ultrafine particulate matter - PM 2.5 concentration - from the daily air quality readings released by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection....

The latest arrest came on Saturday when a 31-year-old man, named by The DailyTelegraph as Jian Feng Ke, was detained at Sydney Airport after he arrived on a flight from China. The 31-year-old, named by the Daily......

China had 225,000 bookstores and sales outlets for books at the end of 2018, a 4.3 percent increase from the previous year, according to an annual report on the country's bookstore industry released on Jan 8. The report, released by China's Books and Periodicals......

"Copper and zinc concentrate are being smuggled en masse into China," a source told Daily NK, an online news website about North Korea... Ties between China and North Korea, which had frayed as Pyongyang stepped up its missile and nuclear tests up to late 2017, have warmed over the past year as Kim engaged with South Korea, the U.S. and China....

The world's top producer churned out more than 3 million tonnes in a month for the first time, undeterred by aluminium prices at two-year lows, the impact of the US-China trade war and Beijing's environmental crackdown ... On a daily basis, China produced almost 98,400 tonnes of ......

(Photo by WANG JILIN/FOR CHINADAILY) ... Ski lovers in China, whose numbers are rising, go skiing almost four times a year on average, and their per-capita spend exceeded 1,300 yuan ($191) each time ... Around New Year's Day, she made a trip to Songhua Lake, Jilin province in NortheastChina, one of the most popular skiing destinations in the country....

Chinese state media have been told to dial down their build-up to China’s upcoming 5G rollout ... Meanwhile, there are concerns that China’s ambitious 5G construction and trial spree may hit the buffers, with China and the US still locked in a tariff war....

(Bloomberg) — China’s bankers and traders are facing smaller bonuses and fewer job opportunities, as the nation’s securities industry stutters after years of rapid growth ... While financial professionals in China are usually paid less than their Western counterparts, paychecks for star performers have swelled to surpass $1 million in recent years....

and China. Shares rose in Shanghai and Hong Kong early Monday despite news that China's economy grew at its lowest pace in three decades last year...CHINA ECONOMY. The world's second-largest economy expanded by 6.6 percent over a year earlier, down from 2017's 6.9 percent, official data showed Monday ... daily ... CHINA-US TRADE....

Chinese crude oil refineries processed an average 12.07 million barrels of oil daily in 2018, up by 6.8 percent on the year and the highest daily processing rate on record, government statistics show, as cited by Reuters ...China imported 30 percent more crude oil in December than a year earlier....

That accounts for nearly 6.4 percent of the country's full-year local government bond issuance in 2018, according to data released by ChinaCentral Depository and Clearing Co ... "Any fund retention in the national treasury or other government departments is not allowed," a senior official from the ministry's BudgetDepartment told ChinaDaily....